ha! Bullshit, maybe 4 or 5 years ago there was a massive heatwave where temperatures got up to 46/47 and stayed there for weeks, not talking "feels like" temperatures either. That explosion was a pure health and safety failure, I know, hard to imagine right?
San was right to be suspicious, despite this being Hangzhou Expat it is still "the internet", the OP was nowhere near conclusive that Dana was the Brother, then again maybe I'm expecting too much of a yank to be clear in situations like this.
Regardless its good to hear the guy is ok

Well, I think it comes from the fact that when you mention motobikes the Chinese would immediately think of a farmer on some shitty one with a bunch of chickens or something, and farmers are poor, therefore motorbikes are the transport method of poor people, we don't want Hangzhou to look poor, so ban motorbikes.
I've been looking at getting a bike for a while now, ever since I started noticing the sports bikes with license plates appear at the start of this year.
Local popo would be a start, however if they don't know the answer they will make something up inevitably being wrong, best to pick a traffic police station and suck up to them

I don't want to come across like a fool here and suggest the CCP are capable of common sense, but surely its more of a zoning/registration thing because that would make working from home illegal, unless your talking about the registered address of the business, then it would make sense

So it seems the crusade to make this a "safe space" for people by banning regulars like @san5324 has pretty much killed this site, before this happened there was a community here and things were discussed, I used to come online several times a day, but now I rarely visit, It's just "Anybody know where i can buy X", and "Anyone know a gym located right next to my apartment?" to which the OP usually never comes back, presumably because they went outside and saw a couple of gyms on their doorstep...
So if any of you aint got my wechat/whatsapp and are feeling fruity (especially my BFF @fionawarner) then [PM for it yo!], otherwise enjoy the tedium that this site has become.